a16z highlights need for censorship resistance and transaction privacy to fix onchain trading, warning unpredictable execution undermines orderbooks and liquidity

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a16z calling out censorship resistance and privacy needs is rare honesty. Unpredictable execution killing orderbooks is why onchain trading still sucks

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